E.ON has unveiled that its Humber Gateway wind farm, located off the East Yorkshire coast, will consist of a 73 turbine array that will generate up to 219MW of electricity, enough energy to power up to 170,000 homes. Dr. Tony Cocker, CEO of E.ON UK, said: “This isn’t just an important announcement f
A new partnership has been launched that aims to secures Dundee’s position as a leading centre of Scotland’s rapidly developing offshore renewables sector. Forth Ports, Scottish Enterprise, Dundee City Council and energy firm SSE have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that will see them wor
Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm Limited, through independent market research company Cogent, is seeking Flintshire residents’ views on how £19 million of community funding should be allocated across North Wales. The funds, £768,000 per year, index linked to inflation, will become available once the 1
Investments of EUR7 billion in renewables, three large wind farms in the North Sea and Baltic Sea, and new transmission lines for wind power: they are all ways Johannes Teyssen is making E.ON a green energy provider. Today E.ON outlined the company’s comprehensive program for helping to transform Ge
nkt cables has entered a contract with E.ON Climate & Renewables Central Europe GmbH at a value of around € 20 million for the offshore wind farm Amrumbank West. For nkt cables, Amrumbank West will be another project with armoured 33 kV submarine cables. The cable will be manufactured at the product
The technical challenges, current achievements and future opportunities of offshore wind projects will be discussed and debated at the 10th Hamburg Offshore Wind Conference (HOW) on 7-8 February 2012. The conference, organised by GL Garrad Hassan, invites developers, turbine and foundation manufactu
As a result of the successful offer for all shares, the Hansen Transmissions International NV has become a wholly owned subsidiary of ZF Friedrichshafen AG. As from 9 December 2011, the company name of “Hansen Transmissions International” has been changed to “ZF Wind Power Antwerpen”. Following the
Developers of the world’s largest offshore wind farm want to raise awareness of the potential career opportunities in offshore wind energy industry. ‘Champions for Wind’ is the name of careers education engagement programme. The initial phase will identify 10 secondary and special school teacher “ch
Alicat workboats exhibited for the first time at the EWEA, the world’s largest and most prestigious offshore renewables exhibition. Huge interest was shown in Alicat Workboats and new customers were very taken with the design and capabilities, whilst existing users of Alicat Workboats praised the se
The European Commission’s Energy Roadmap 2050 shows that a high renewables energy mix – with 97% of the EU’s electricity consumption met by renewable energy, including 49% wind power in 2050 – would have the same “overall energy system costs” as any other decarbonisation or business as usual scenari
Milborne St Andrew, Dorset based small wind and hydro turbine manufacturer Ampair has announced that it is has created eight new job positions after experiencing solid growth in 2011 as a result of its continued international success in the hybrid power systems sector. Ampair started making wind tur
The Crown Estate has today, 15 December 2011, launched offshore wind and tidal stream leasing rounds to select developers to take forward up to 800MW of projects in Northern Ireland waters, marking a major step forward in the growth of Northern Ireland’s offshore renewable energy industry. This foll
GL Renewables Certification has started a project to evaluate the LMS SAMTECH software tool “SAMCEF For Wind Turbines” (S4WT). The software by LMS SAMTECH provides an integrated solution simulating the complete dynamic behaviour of wind turbines under realistic wind conditions. The objective of this
State and local officials are expected to emerge from a two-day meeting in Astoria Dec. 15 and Dec. 16 with recommendations… By Jeremy C. Ruark ( seasidesignal ) [mappress] Source: seasidesignal , December 15, 2011
